Andrea Alessio - Before You, Santa Claus, Life was like a Moonless Night Courtesy of Press Office

Andrea Alessio - Before You, Santa Claus, Life was like a Moonless Night Courtesy of Press Office

Andrea Alessio - Before You, Santa Claus, Life was like a Moonless Night Courtesy of Press Office

Those who are passionate about photography in Milan know and regularly visit Micamera, a space curated by Flavio Franzoni and Giulia Zorzi and dedicated to all forms of art somehow related to photography and that, this year, celebrates its 10th anniversary.

In these ten years of activity Micamera has organized workshops and meetings with international legendary masters of photography, it has hosted not-to-be-missed exhibitions of contemporary photography and launched a very interesting project called Support Your Locals dedicated to the Isola neighbourhood (and on display at Photolux in Lucca starting from November 23rd) . Micamera has established itself as a fundamental point of reference in Italian photography, “a project incubator” is the self-chosen description, whose core is represented by the exceptional bookshop – one of the best stocked in Europe – which mirrors the level of attention and passion that the founders of Micamera pour in all their projects.

For this special anniversary, Micamera has two special event in store: the exhibition entitled Before You, Santa Claus, Life was like a Moonless Night by Andrea Alessio opening on Friday 8th of November on via Medardo Rosso 19 at 7 pm and a debate on the photographic book and art photography (taking place at 5.30 pm before the opening of the exhibition at Spazio O' on via Pastrengo, 12 ) with Chris Pichler, editor at Nazraeli Press and Massimo Torrigiani, editor in chief at Fantom and director of SH Contemporary.

It does not surprise that Alessio is the first Italian photographer to be published by the prestigious American publishing house Nazraeli Press: his images depicting the North-East of Italy lit up only by Christmas street lights conjure the appeal of the moonscape: a suffused uninhabited universe in which, enshrouded in fog, the human presence is given away by only a few dimly lit windows. A work in which the evanescent beauty and the melancholic lyricism perfectly capture the sensitivity and quality pursued by the artists behind this project.